Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and render to God those things that are God's of the earliest Christianity to Western Christianity, the Church and State supporting each other THROUGH the fact of BEING separate, an efficient and powerful division of labour that allowed the West to outstrip Islam as THE great civilization, thus causing the present crisis within Islam today: a civil war between ancient practise and modernity, the West being caught in the crossfire of competing forces. The enemy is not secularization but a terrible loss of faith both in the secular AND religious side of the West.

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